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Life List

In case you aren’t familiar with the term, a life list is a list of all the birds, or whatever, you’ve seen in your lifetime. Most people probably are at 200 something, while others are well into the thousands. Once you start counting, you constantly look for another to add. Its a fun but addicting sport. Some people only count birds they physically see, others count birds they heard, some count anything that looks kinda like the picture in the book, others go down to sub species. A special group, the photographers who became birders count only what they photograph. I count what I see, and make notation of where and what year when I can, also if I photographed it. I also like to count everything, gators, turtles, butterflies….

In the next few days I will be making my list here, and I will be updating it as I go. (196 avian species and counting)